Vol. 1 Brooklyn publishes Fairleigh Dickinson University MFA alum Tim Waldron’s essay regarding the genius of Gordon Weaver and the anxiety that comes with building the reading list. Tim begs important questions: “A book like Infinite Jest is a good example of some of the issues my personal canon faces. Do people actually read the thing or if they just use it as an objet d’art?” Read A Better Personal Cannon at Vol. 1 Brooklyn.

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Tim Waldron is an online fiction editor of The Literary Review. His short-story collection World Takes is published by Word Riot Press.